Great, thank you. I will study it.
One last question: is there any reason to prefer one of the
new releases over the other? Should I just go with 111? I
am updating a Toshiba Satellite laptop.
Kostas
Michal Pryc wrote:
> Hi,
> I will point you to my article ;)
> http://developers.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/opensolaris/bootenvironments/index.html
>
>
>
> best
> Michal Pryc
>
> Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>> Thanks to all who responded.
>>
>> There is one more thing. What exactly is the definition of a "boot
>> environment"?
>> Alfred said it's a ZFS snapshot. From what I understand of ZFS, it
>> doesn't have the (old) concept of file systems mounted on disk
>> partitions. So does the ZFS snapshot mean that the snapshot will
>> contain my entire disk? /usr, /opt /export/home, etc? Or what does
>> it mean?
>>
>> Kostas
>>
>> Michal Pryc wrote:
>>> Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am running 2008.11, and I am considering upgrading to a later
>>>> build, say 110.
>>>> The problem is that I also have a few non-IPS packages installed.
>>>> For example, Qt 4 from SFE. This is an SVR4 package that installs
>>>> into /usr.
>>>>
>>>> If I upgrade to a later build using ''pkg image-update''
>>>>
>>>> 1. Will the old (saved) boot environment contain my non-IPS
>>>> packages, or will they be lost?
>>> They should be preserved, but if any of the IPS package will contain
>>> the same file as the SVR4 package it will be overridden by the IPS one.
>>>
>>>> 2. Will the new boot environment contain them, or will I need to
>>>> re-install them?
>>> It should contain, but as I said some files might be overridden.
>>>
>>> best
>>> Michal Pryc
>>>
>
